Culture Fit (Humantelligence overview)


What is corporate culture?

Corporate culture can be defined as, “The behaviors, motivators, values, and work styles of a team, a group of teams and/or an organization as a whole.”

Why is culture important and what impact does culture have on your organization?

Culture is important to the success of your organization because it exerts strong influence over issues such as employee engagement, retention, productivity and profitability. In addition, it shapes your employer brand, affects recruitment and retention, helps drive customer satisfaction, and influences relationships with suppliers.

How important is culture?

Four-fifths (80%) of HR professionals that participated in a recent HR.com survey think corporate culture is either very important or important.

Why does HR view culture as crucial? The Harvard Business Review article, “The Leader’s Guide to Corporate Culture” https://hbr.org/2018/01/the-culture-factor notes that culture is key to a number of other performance-determining factors:

  • Selecting and developing successful leaders

  • Ensuring the success of mergers and acquisitions

  • Prioritizing learning to promote agility and innovation

  • Aligning with strategy

  • Creating a shared sense of purpose

Common culture misconceptions:

Most organizations fail to evaluate culture as it pertains to the majority of employees or individual preferences, the inter-workings of teams and bringing new talent into the organization. Some experts argue that culture management is typically a top-down approach, with “culture” being defined by a narrow group of executives at the top and then “communicated down” the hierarchy to the organization. Some typical culture misconceptions are:

  • Culture is formed from the top down from executives.

  • Every company has only one culture.

How do you measure culture?

The problem is, most organizations do not know how to measure culture well, and HR is not very familiar with culture across different departments.

Many companies also lack a formal definition/description of the primary culture. It is also possible that a lack of cultural measurement tools is impeding HR’s understanding of subcultures. Without definitions and metrics, culture may be viewed as an amorphous “intuitive feeling” that HR professionals and executives have about their organizations.

The solution: Measure your culture with Humantelligence SaaS platform

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Big Picture Consulting is an alliance partner of Humantelligence, the leading SaaS culture analytics and recruiting solution. Humantelligence leverages behavioral science and data analytics to measure team culture, improve engagement across an entire workforce, and help companies “recruit for culture fit” and predictive success.

Humantelligence developed a scientifically proven 12-minute self-assessment and analytics platform that measures culture at every level, uncovering talent insights that can be leveraged for improving performance, engagement, and hiring. With the Humantelligence SaaS platform, you’ll gain insights about each individual’s behaviors, motivators and ideal work styles and apply those insights to every aspect of the employee lifecycle and help make faster and more effective hiring decisions.

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